স্পোকেন ইংলিশ ফর বেঙ্গলি স্পিকার- Spoken English For Bengali Speakers

About the Book In today's competitive world, Spoken English is considered as a passport for success in life. The craze for learning spoken English has led to the growth of coaching institutes all over the country. Much as they may profess and advertise, it is not really possible to learn any language in 30 days. A person who genuinely wants to learn the language needs to spend two to three hours every day for at least five or six months before he or she would feel confident to communicate in English.

The prime objective of this book is to encourage students to learn English as a tool of communication and to enable them to understand the language thoroughly. The book basically takes off from the learner's point of view and guides them through cooperative learning methods in order to help master the effective communication skills in English.

The book has been divided into four convenient units of Grammar, Pronunciation, Conversation and Vocabulary. Each chapter covers one main area of learning English - explained with examples. Carefully selected and graded exercises have also been included throughout the book to give readers ample practice and a complete understanding of the subject. In short, the book follows the modern functional approach to the study of English. So readers, it is definitely a one-stop solution for speaking English!

Introduction With the globalization of knowledge and culture the need for acquiring good communicative English by one and all has assumed great significance in this twenty first century. In fact, the demand for learning effective communicative English has never been as great as it stands today. It is interesting to note that during the last two decades the use of English for communicative purposes has not been confined only to the elite group of the society. People from the middle and lower middle classes are equally keen on learing and using it effectively.

It is because they consider 'Spoken English' as a passport for a guaranteed success in life. The craze for learning Spoken English has led to the growth of various coaching institutes all over the country. Much as they may profess and advertise it is not really possible to learn any language in thirty or forty days. At the same time learning Spoken English does not mean parrot like repetition of some crammed sentences with the help of a limited vocabulary. It means acquiring a skill to generate and use functional English in ever changing life situations while speaking. For this besides acquiring the required sentence patterns and expressions in a given situation a person needs an appropriate vocabulary as well. So this is surely not possible in two or three month's time. Although one needs to understand that a person who genuinely wants to learn the language needs to spend at least two to three hours every day for at least five or six months before he or she feels confident to communicate in English. A strong desire coupled with one track working is a pre condition for the successful completion of this project on communicative English.

In India, as everywhere, English offers its own problems. It becomes a language of "if’s and butts" where double 'if’s and doublet’s crop up at the most unlikely of places giving emphasis where there should be subtlety. Caught between the inability to articulate in a foreign language and the rather inexplicable need to be seen using English, the Indian actually gets the shivers. Over the years with mobile phones and computers spreading all over India, the country's fascination with English ahs only intensified. It cannot be said for sure if this has resulted in English usage getting more communicative At the moment the process is a bit haphazard and finding a method in this madness is the idea of the book.

The objective of this book is to encourage students & layman to learn English as a tool communication and to enable them 'to know, to do, to live and to live.' It looks at language from learner's point of view and guides them through co-operative learning methods in order to mass effective communication skills.

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